From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 14:42:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA20272 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 14:42:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from argus.flash.net (root@[206.149.24.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA20267 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 14:42:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from lists@localhost) by argus.flash.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA03614; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 16:40:44 -0600 From: mailing list account Message-Id: <199601192240.QAA03614@argus.flash.net> Subject: Re: Windows 95 Compatability To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 16:40:43 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9601192220.AA11339@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Jan 19, 96 05:20:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In reply: > > SIMTEL-20.WSMR.ARMY.MIL is no more... what happened, did the Army/Congress > > drop funding? I haven't been able to get to simtel for a couple of years > > now... > > DEC wanted something like $20000/year to continue maintenance of the > machine. (Do you have any idea how hard it is to get KL-10 parts any > more?) That gave the Army the opportunity to determine that software > distribution wasn't part of their mission, so they killed it off. uheh. i always wondered about that... hey, i thought they were a decsystem-20 running multics... Jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@argus.flash.net - FlashNet Communications - Ft. Worth, Texas